As well, this is not really the thread for this discussion. If you do want to discuss security of X over Y, it would be better to do it over in the Security forum. So far you've only offered a couple of anecdotal stories from 10 years ago and that is not really a good basis for a security policy.

The first "niavete" was excusable, but once you expanded on your point by saying you knew someone a long time ago who had a problem and it soured your whole experience, it tends to blow back on you. Seriously, you'll get a very focused discussion over in the Security forum.

My opinion is CentOS/RHEL should be one option. Although CentOS team is doing a great job, it's essentially based on RHEL. Finally voted CentOS.

Still Slackware,
cuz it works.

CentOS, CentOS, CentOS for server.

Does it all count matter? If it does just one more vote for CentOS!

:)

for desktop Fedora.

On the fifth day, God created computing. But there was much apprehension therein, and a good many did know how best to run applications on their servers (which would frequently panic or core dump.) So on the sixth day, God created Debian, and he saw that it was good, and it was.

There is only one server operating system, and its name is called "Debian GNU/Linux."

just use Gentoo once, I am sure you cannot leave it

Ubuntu. Does everything I need it to do.

Red Hat Enterprise linux

Debian dude Debian
 

there is not other server than Debian do you know anything else :tisk:

Voted for Debian, Slackware second.

Especially after seeing how well one can optimize it to do a task. And while the initial setup can take a while, you'll know that configuration inside and out by the time you're done.

After using it on a few of my servers, I've found that it's amazing how much extra crap other distros install, even with a minimal server config.

Many thanks!
 

Hi!

On behalf of the entire Debian Project I would like to thank you all for the honour for electing us again. We'll try to copy with the trust you set in us and try to improve even further.

Best regards,
Alexander "Tolimar" Reichle-Schmehl

Hi Alexander, It's great to see you on LQ. Good luck to you and the others!
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